Quotes About Circumstances Beyond Our Control

#1. we will always be at the mercy of the world and of circumstances beyond our control.

Chaya Rao

#2. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#3. I think it would be prudent to advise you that due to extraordinary circumstances beyond our control, the original plan we had for participating in and extending the duration of the IPT Main Event has been drastically altered, specifically as it pertains to certain individuals competing -

Elle Lothlorien

#4. That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.

Michael Lewis

#5. I don't think we get exempt from the pain because we live good lives. Some circumstances we can't control - in fact, most are truly beyond our abilities. Instead maybe it's how we get made new; it's one of the only times we slow down enough to listen and receive grace, real grace.

Katherine Reay

#6. You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn't determine who you are. You must all realize what you're worth on your own.

Koushun Takami

#7. I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

Brian Harvey

#8. Now, please understand that I didn't want to do any of this crap. None of these choices were mine. Like kids across the nation I was caught in circumstances beyond my control, and I felt that my choices were bad, worse, and worst.

Mark Garrison

#9. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.

Archibald Marwizi

#10. I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#11. We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

Dan Quayle

#12. Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Dickens

#13. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#14. Righteous women in their circle of influence,
beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#15. if you continue allowing external circumstances to dictate how you feel, you'll always be at the mercy of the situations in your life that are completely beyond your control.

Dana Wilde

#16. I'm dying always.

Jessye Norman

#17. As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

William James

#18. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Benjamin Disraeli

#19. My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#20. Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

Annie Ernaux

#21. The Women Who Can Wait For Her Man
Till Dawn, Without Any Argument,
Are Priceless.

Ahmed Ali Anjum

#22. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick